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Naomie kremer talks about the secret garden
Naomie Kremer (born January 31, 1953) is an Israeli born American artist living and working in Oakland, CA. Kremer works in paint, video, photography and digital projection. She is represented by Modernism, Inc. in San Francisco, McClain Gallery in Houston, 212 Gallery in Aspen, and Von Fraunberg Gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany. Kremer is known for paintings that incorporate video and digital projection, and her work in set design for the performing arts. In 2011 she collaborated with Margaret Jenkins Dance Company to create a video based set for the performance Light Moves, which premiered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and was subsequently performed at the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Maryland and the Dance Center at Columbia College in Chicago. In 2012 Kremer was commissioned to create a video based set design for the world premiere opera based on The Secret Garden, co-commissioned by San Francisco Opera and Cal Performances, with music by Nolan Gasser and Libretto by Carey Harrison.
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Kremer’s work has been exhibited in institutions and galleries including the Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF, Magnes Museum in Berkeley, CA, Oakland Museum of California, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her work resides in corporate and museum collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, UCLA, SFMOMA, New York Public Library, Tang Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum.
Art Critic Kenneth Baker has said of Kremer's work: “Naomie Kremer’s improvisational works depend on elusive, harmonious relations among painterly details, the tempo of brushwork, and the dimensions of a canvas.”
In a review about Kremer's show Age of Entanglement at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, art critic David Roth said: “Populated by layers of colliding shapes, colors and gestures, they pushed the non-objective impulse to its outer limits, harnessing what felt like primordial forces.”
Early life and career
Naomie Kremer is one of two children, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to Yitzhak and Dora Tarshish. When Kremer was eight years old her family immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, from Israel. Kremer began drawing at the age of 10 and later began taking classes at the Brooklyn Museum in life drawing.
After high school Kremer attended the University of Rochester, NY and minored in Art. In 1973 Kremer met her husband, Charles Kremer, in India and they moved to London, England. Kremer went to Sussex University in Brighton where she earned a master's degree in Art History, specializing in Modern and Contemporary art, with a thesis on Abstract Expressionism. In 1977 Kremer and her husband moved to the United States and settled in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kremer worked as a graphic designer until 1989. In 1991 Kremer went back to school for a master's degree in Painting and Drawing at California College of the Arts (CCA). After completing her second master's degree Kremer began teaching painting and drawing at CCA and the San Francisco Art Institute and working as a full-time professional artist.
Kremer works as a professional artist out of her studio in Oakland, CA and shows internationally.